{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Primal Park | type = Studio | artist = Mondo Rock | cover = Primal Park (Album Cover).jpg | alt = | released = October 1979 | recorded = May 1979 | venue = | studio = Bombay Rock, Melbourne | genre = Rock | length = 65:42 | label = OZ Records | producer = Ross Wilson | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Chemistry | next_year = 1981 | misc = {{Singles | name = Primal Park | type = studio | single1 = Searching for My Baby | single1date = September 1979 | single2 = Primal Park | single2date = November 1979 }} }}
'''''Primal Park''''' is the debut studio album by Australian rock band Mondo Rock, released in October 1979 and peaked at number 40 on the Kent Music Report.<ref>[http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/recordings/primal-park-by-mondo-rock Mondo Rock - Primal Park at Australian Music Database]</ref> The album is a mixture of live recordings (tracks 1, 6–9) and studio recordings (tracks 2–5). It spawned the non-charting singles "Searching for My Baby" and "Primal Park", both of which were studio recordings. In 2009, the album was remastered and included eight bonus tracks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/primal-park-remastered/id1132858424|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104163741/https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/primal-park-remastered/id1132858424|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 January 2017|title= Mondo Rock - Primal Park (Remastered)|publisher=iTunes Australia|accessdate=22 July 2017}}</ref>
== Track listing == ;Side A # "Question Time" (Gunther Gorman) – 3:38 # "Down to Earth" (Kim Fowley, Ross Wilson) – 4:06 # "Primal Park" (David Pepperell, R. Wilson) – 4:15 # "Searching for My Baby" (R. Wilson) – 2:52 # "Tell Me" (Iain McLennan) – 4:21
;Side B # "Toughen Up" (R. Wilson) – 3:45 # "Down Down" Down Down (R. Wilson) – 4:29 # "The Rebel" (R. Wilson, Tony Slavich) – 5:26 # "Live Wire" – The Mondo Shakedown (R. Wilson, Simon Gyllies) – 6:56
'''2009 Bonus tracks – Singles A's And B's 1978/79''' # "The Fugitive Kind" (R. Wilson, T. Slavich) – 3:35 # "The Breaking Point" (I. McLennan) – 4:57 # "Send Me Someone" (R. Wilson) – 3:18 # "Love Shock" (Peter Laffy, R. Wilson) – 3:10 # "Don't You Lie to Me" (Chuck Berry) – 2:51 # "Louie Louie" (Richard Berry) – 4:56 # "Telephone Booth" (R. Wilson, Stephen Cummings) – 3:16 # "Perhaps Perhaps" (R. Wilson, S. Cummings) – 3:11
==Personnel== '''Mondo Rock:''' *Ross Wilson – lead vocals, harmonica *Randy Bulpin – guitar, slide guitar *Peter Laffy – guitar, backing vocals *Rex Bullen – keyboards (tracks 2–5 only) *Simon Gyllies – bass *Iain McLennan – drums, backing vocals; lead vocals on "Tell Me" also: *Tony Slavich – keyboards (on bonus tracks 10, 11) *Gil Matthews – drums (on bonus tracks 14–17)
with: *Sunil De Silva – percussion *Eddie Rayner – synthesizer *Andrew Bell – additional vocals
'''Production team:''' *Producer – Ross Wilson *Engineers – Ern Rose and Jim Barton (tracks 1, 6–9: recorded live at Le Club Bombay Rock, Melbourne, 18 May 1979) *Engineers – Mal Devenish, Richard Lush, Tony Cohen (tracks 2–5) *Mixed by – Ross Cockle
==Charts== {|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- !scope="col"| Chart (1979) !scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- !scope="row"| Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Kent|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives|year=1993|page=205|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}.</ref> | style="text-align:center;"| 40 |- |}
== References == {{reflist}} {{Mondo Rock}}
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Category:1979 debut albums Category:Mondo Rock albums Category:Albums produced by Ross Wilson Category:EMI Records albums